Originally posted by ratchet22
Cool, I thought I was the only one trying to tame a ferrel. I would not suggest letting them out though, I felt secure enough and let mine go, and here it is 4 months later and I finally caught him again to get him nuetered. He was neutered last sunday. But since then I have him in him cage. And I can pet him and Im trying to hold him next. What a hard job. I am glad to see someone out there also doing this. Are we crazy? Or can this really be done? My kid is a big tom cat, hugh head, and very timid towards me, but getting better, And Ive been doing this for almost a year? Is there any hope?
There IS hope. With a lot of patience, my sister-in-law fed, caught, had to keep in quarantine, and then socialize a very feral adult male cat. She finally got herself a Have-a-Heart trap from her then-fiance (now husband) one Christmas, and not long afterwards, they noticed Gizmo (the feral) had been in a fight and had a badly infected wound. So they suceeded in trapping him, and she now says she knows that if she hadn;t been the one to bring him in, and stay with him, at the vet's, they would have declared him too wild and unadoptable. Fast-forward to now, and he is a happy, healthy indoor-only cat. He's not a lap-cat by any means, but is otherwise tame as could be.